Barbara Sampson said the baby died from multiple blunt force injuries. I called police and told them what I had seen, and said that I couldn’t see anybody in the building that might have thrown the child, nor was anybody else around.
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In her most recent pregnancy, Berry’s family and friends didn’t even know she was expecting, authorities said.
When cops showed up at the building, Johnson was outside talking to Martinez – and didn’t have an inkling about what happened, she said.
Jennifer Berry is accused of tossing her newborn out of a seventh-floor window.
Neighbors said they only saw Berry periodically in the building where she lived with the newborn’s father and a toddler from a previous relationship.
Later it was determined that Berry worked for the Administration for Children’s Services for six months in 2007 and 2008.
She is alleged to have admitted throwing the placenta and baby out of the window.
An attorney for Berry, who is from Yonkers, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
One of witnesses said that the woman’s eyes were dead when she was apprehended by the police. It was unclear how much time elapsed between the baby’s birth and her fall from the window, officials said.
The boyfriend told police that he was in another room when the baby was born and plunged from the window. “This was a healthy baby girl”, Ms Barker said in court, according to the Daily News of New York.
According to a report via the nypost the city’s Medical Examiner concluded that the infant was still breathing in the University Heights apartment when the child was thrown to its death.
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Berry was remanded to jail and is scheduled to next appear in court on October 5, a spokesperson for the District Attorney’s office said.
